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Council passes no-rent pact for IDA, CDA ly what has been the custom in practice for the last four or so years,” said City Attorney GregThe Glen Cove Industrial ory Kalnitsky. “This is an Development Agency and Com- accounting measure if the CDA munity Development Agency or IDA is audited. They’re need not pay rent to required to have an the City of Glen i n t e r- m u n i c i p a l C ove fo r o f f i c e agreement in place, space at City Hall, for malizing our according to an ag reement and agreement the outshowing that they side agencies are performing cerreached with the tain services and city on April 28. we’re receiving cerThe City Countain services.” cil, including The CDA, among Mayor Tim Tenke, other services, voted 6-1 that day to owns the Glen Cove for malize the Senior Center and arrangement. oversees Section 8 Council member public housing in Marsha Silverman the city. The IDA was the lone vote issues federal and against it. state grant funding The two agenfor large-scale projcies have not paid GREGORY ects such as the rent to the city for current waterfront four years, but rath- KALNITSKY redevelopment. er have provided G.C. city attorney RXR Realty puressential services, chased 44 acres of so city officials said waterfront property they thought it only right that on two parcels from the IDA for they would have office space at $10 million in 2016 in order to City Hall. Until recently, howev- construct the $1.3 billion Garvies er, that agreement had not been Point housing and shopping formalized. development, which is now under “What’s happening right now construction. RXR also received a is that we’re formalizing basicalCONTINUED ON PAGE 3
By JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
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Courtesy Denyce LaVeglia
DENYCE LAVEGLIA, LEFT, a registered nurse who is the assistant manager of Glen Cove Hospital’s rehabilitation unit, and Nurse Nikolette Bros worked long hours at the peak of the coronavirus.
G.C. Hospital’s LaVeglia, ‘a true Florence Nightingale’ By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Kee ping a promise is important to most 4-year-olds, and Mia Josephina Gambino is no different. It was difficult for her when she was separated from her parents, Joseph Gambino and Denyce LaVeglia, for three weeks when her
father was diagnosed with Covid-19. “Not seeing my daughter was the worst thing I could go through,” said LaVeglia, 36, a registered nurse and the assistant manager of Glen Cove Hospital’s rehabilitation unit. “You need that love and the feeling you get from your child, and I couldn’t have it. I
wanted to run over and hug her, but I couldn’t. She began to shut down, and didn’t want to talk to me or my husband toward the end.” Gambino, 38, began to show signs of the virus in the couple’s Dix Hills home in April, coughing and feeling fatigued. When he went to CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
hat’s happening right now is that we’re formalizing basically what has been the custom in practice for the last four or so years.